The two strolled down the road for a few minutes in silence. Unable to take it any longer and dying to know more about her Klaus decided to try and get this timid girl to open up.
'Do you have a name then love?'
'Emm…'
Klaus could see the girl was afraid, but not of him. He could see she had gone through something traumatic and held many secrets in the shadows of her heart. Although he could feel his rage building, desperate to know everything about her, who had hurt her, he knew he had to be patient.
'My name, my name is… Lily' she finally whispered.
Of course her name was Lily, she was a delicate flower, in need of protecting. Why did she have his eyes? Why did something about her remind him so much of himself?
'Well its nice to meet you Lily. You can call me Klaus' he grinned at her.
Klaus. She had heard the name before but couldn't place where. Her early memories where so mixed up and confused she didn't no what was real and what she had conjured up in fantasies anymore but she was sure she had heard this name before.
The two continued in silence, absorbed in their own thoughts about each other. Klaus could tell Lily wasn't ready to talk about the events that had led to her being alone in the bayou in the middle of the night but he knew from the state of her and the way she kept glancing back, terrified she was being followed that it was serious.
'Don't worry love, your safe now' he reassured her as he held the passenger door of his car open for her.
Once they were inside and pulling away, although still weary that she was in a car with a stranger who she could tell was a very powerful man from the way he spoke and carried himself, Lily let out a huge sigh of relief. She had finally done it. Somehow she had managed to escape Cypress woods and the demons that it held.